Auburn High School (Nebraska)

Auburn High School serves the towns of Auburn, Peru, Julian, Howe, Brownville, and the surrounding area in Southeast Nebraska. The high school building is used as classrooms for students in grades 6-12 and contains a wrestling room, weight room, a gym, and four locker rooms.

Accountability for a Quality Education System, Today and Tomorrow (AQuESTT)

The first-ever results of Nebraska’s new accountability system were released on Friday, December 4, 2015, showing that Auburn Public Schools was designated as one of Nebraska’s five excellent school districts.

Bennington Public Schools, Elkhorn Public Schools, Potter-Dix Public Schools, and Riverside Public Schools were also named as Excellent districts.

The new state system, AQuESTT (Accountability for a Quality Education System, Today and Tomorrow), designates all public school districts and school buildings as Excellent, Great, Good, or Needs Improvement. Auburn High School and Auburn Middle School were named as Excellent buildings. Calvert Elementary was classified as a Great building.

The overall rating includes measures from two areas—academic and effective instructional practices. AQuESTT focuses first on classifying schools and districts using state test scores, graduation rates, student participation rates as well as year-to-year improvement and growth –criteria that was used in the state’s past accountability system.

The second component goes even further. Under AQuESTT, district and schools are required to self-assess their practices embedded in six tenets for successful schooling. The six tenets are 1) Positive School Partnerships and Relationships and Student Success, 2) Transitions between grades and school buildings, 3) Educational Opportunities and Access, 4) College and Career Readiness, 5) Multiple Assessments, and 6) Educator Effectiveness. Each tenet is evaluated on a 0- 3 scale: Not at All - 0; Limited Extent – 1; Moderate Extent-2; and Great Extent -3.

AQuESTT encourages schools to focus on every student every day and to build a system for continuous school improvement that supports students, educators and the school learning environment.

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Academics

AHS on the majority of State Standardized testing has had at least 90% receiving proficient marks on tests. Auburn also has a 94% percent graduation rate, along with 99.22% of their high school teachers being endorsed by the state. AHS also offers Advanced Placement or dual-credit courses to prepare its students for college.

Athletics

Auburn High School's athletics mascot is the Bulldog. AHS has had major success in NSAA sports, most notably a Class C football state championship in 2006 in which the Bulldogs went undefeated. More recently, Auburn took the Girls Class B Track and Field Championship. The Bulldogs also won the runner-up title in 2009 at the NSAA wrestling championship. Notable alumni of Auburn's athletic programs include Chris Kelsay and Chad Kelsay.

References

External links

• Official website